Hiive

Secondary marketplace for pre-IPO shares

Hiive runs an institutional-grade marketplace bringing buyers, sellers and issuers together for secondary transactions in venture-backed, pre-IPO companies. The asset class is normally opaque — priced through bilateral negotiation with almost no visibility into comparable trades — and Hiive introduces efficiency, transparency and standardisation to it, changing how private companies and their shareholders reach liquidity well before an exit. That matters more as companies stay private longer and employee equity ages past the point anyone expected to hold it. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, is profitable and well-capitalised, and ranks among Canada's fastest-growing companies.